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People
Phone calls
Accounts and sync
Setting text and multimedia message options
Keyboard
Messages
Calendar
Social
Internet
Clock and Weather
Photos
Bluetooth
Camera
More apps
Music
Maps and location
Security
Settings
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Backup, update and reset
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Front panel
Basics
Inside the box
Your Phone
Home
Back panel
Left panel
Top panel
Storage card
Before turning on your phone
Back cover
Removing the storage card while the phone is on
Battery
Inserting the battery
Removing the battery
Charging the battery
Finger gestures
Turning off your phone
Setting up your phone for the first time
Getting started
Turning on your phone
Waking up from Sleep mode
Sleep mode
Switching to Sleep mode
Unlocking the screen
Navigating the Home screen
Directly going to a particular screen using Leap view
Home screen
Extended Home screen
Phone status icons
Phone status and notifications
Notification icons
Closing the Notifications panel
Checking notifications
Opening the Notifications panel
Adjusting the media volume
Adjusting the volume
Adjusting the ringer volume
Connecting your phone to a computer
Copying files to and from the storage card
Searching your phone and the Web
Setting Web and Quick Search Box options
Searching the Web and your phone using the Quick Search Box
Changing the ringtone
Personalizing
Making your phone truly yours
Customizing and saving a scene
Using a preset scene
Personalizing your phone with scenes
Renaming or deleting a scene
Changing your wallpaper
Downloading HTC widgets
Personalizing your Home screen with widgets
Adding a widget to your Home screen
Personalizing
Renaming a folder
Adding folders on your Home screen
Creating a new folder and adding items to it
Removing a widget or icon
Moving a widget or icon
Calling a speed dial number
Calling somebody using your phone
Phone calls
Making calls
Calling a phone number in an email
Calling using Voice Dialer
Calling a phone number in a text message
Turning Assisted Dialing on
Using Assisted Dialing
Editing a country’s international call settings
Making an emergency call
Muting the ringing sound without rejecting the call
Receiving calls
Answering an incoming call
Rejecting a call and sending a text message
Editing the default message
Rejecting an incoming call
Handling multiple calls
Using in-call options
Setting up a conference call
Ending a call
Muting the microphone during a call
Turning the speakerphone on or off during a call
Adding a new phone number to your contacts from call history
Using call history
Clearing the call history list
Checking a missed call
Nbpcd
Call services
Visual Voice Mail
Setting up Visual Voice Mail
Using Visual Voice Mail
Turning Airplane mode on or off
Ways of getting contacts into your phone
People
About People
Your contacts list
Setting up My contact card
People screen
Adding a new contact
Manually merging contact information
Importing contacts from an Exchange ActiveSync account
Merging contact information
Editing a contact’s information
Deleting contacts
Searching for a contact
Backing up your contacts to the storage card
Importing contacts from the storage card
Sending your contact information as a vCard via MMS
Adding or removing contacts from a group
Contact groups
Creating a group and adding contacts
Deleting a group
Sending an SMS/MMS message or email to a group
Contact information and conversations
Adding the People widget
Setting the default communication method
Changing the default communication method
People widget
Changing the onscreen keyboard layout
Using the onscreen keyboard
Using the landscape onscreen keyboard
Keyboard
Entering words with predictive text
Entering text
Editing or deleting a word in the user dictionary
Entering text with voice input
Adding a word to the predictive text dictionary
Phone keypad & compact Qwerty
Adjusting touch input settings
Touch Input settings
Text input
Finger touch precision
Other settings
Sending a text message
Messages
About Messages
Sending text and multimedia messages
Sending a multimedia MMS message
Saving and resuming a draft message
New message notifications
Viewing all your WAP push messages
WAP push messages
Opening the link contained in a WAP push message
Replying to a text or multimedia message
Managing message conversations
Reading a text message
Viewing a multimedia message
Deleting a single message
Protecting a message from deletion
Deleting a message thread
Deleting several message threads
Received messages
Setting text and multimedia message options
SMS settings
MMS settings
Sent messages
Adding the Messages widget
Synchronizing with a Google Account
Accounts and sync
Synchronizing with online accounts
Adding a social network account
Managing your accounts
Synchronizing with a Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account
Installing HTC Sync
Using HTC Sync
Setting up synchronization
Setting up HTC Sync to recognize your phone
Synchronizing your phone with your computer automatically
Setting up more sync options
Synchronizing your phone
Synchronizing your phone with your computer manually
Downloading the latest HTC Sync upgrade
Installing apps from your computer to your phone
Facebook for HTC Sense
Using the Facebook application
Social
Facebook for HTC Sense and Facebook for Android application
Adding the Facebook widget
With the Facebook application, you can
Sending a tweet
Twittering on your phone
Peep screen
Unfollowing a Twitter user
Setting Peep options
Searching for Twitter users to follow
Sending a direct message
Adding the Twitter widget
Friend Stream screen
Using Friend Stream
Adding the Friend Stream widget
Updating your status
Chatting with friends
Chatting in Google Talk
Signing in to Google Talk
Changing your online status and picture
Managing your Friends list
Blocking a friend
Changing Google Talk settings
Setting notifications for new Google Talk messages
Making a friend popular
Setting whether you sign into Google Talk automatically
Showing or hiding the mobile indicator to friends
Viewing your Gmail/Google Mail inbox
Using Gmail/Google Mail
Reading your messages
Switching to another Google Account
Reporting a conversation as spam
Replying to or forwarding an email message
Muting a conversation
Adding a signature to your messages
Sending a message
Managing conversations and messages
Working with conversations in batches
Changing Gmail/Google Mail synchronization settings
Changing Gmail/Google Mail settings
Viewing your email inbox
Mail
Adding a POP3/IMAP email account
Deleting an email message
Inbox filter tabs
Refreshing an email account
Sorting email messages
Sending a meeting request
Setting out of the office status
Setting the priority for an email message
Exchange ActiveSync email
Composing and sending an email message
Adding the Mail widget
Editing email account settings
Viewing and replying to an email message
Deleting an email account
Creating a calendar event
Calendar
About Calendar
Set the reminder time
Inviting guests to your event Google Account only
Month view
Changing calendar views
Day and Agenda views
Week view
Deleting an event
Viewing, editing or deleting an event
Viewing and editing an event
Viewing, dismissing, or snoozing event reminders
Calendar event reminders
Adding a Google Calendar to sync with
Displaying and synchronizing calendars
Showing or hiding calendars
Stop synchronizing a Google Calendar
Calendar view settings
Changing Calendar settings
Reminder settings
About the Calendar widget
Sending a vCalendar
About the HTC Clock widget
Clock and Weather
About the Clock application
Using Desk Clock
Setting the time zone, date, and time
Using World Clock
Setting your home city
Adding a city to the World Clock screen
Deleting an alarm
Setting the alarm clock
Setting an alarm
Changing alarm sound settings
Adding a city to the Weather screen
Checking weather
Changing weather options
About the Weather widget
Changing the order of cities on the Weather screen
Deleting cities from the Weather screen
Enabling data roaming
Internet
Data connection
Turning the data connection on or off
Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with EAP-TLS security
Wi-Fi
Turning Wi-Fi on and connecting to a wireless network
Connecting to another Wi-Fi network
Checking the wireless network status
Adding the Data connection and Wi-Fi widgets
Preparing your phone for VPN connection
Connecting to a virtual private network VPN
Connecting to a VPN
Setting up secure credential storage
Disconnecting from a VPN
Using your phone’s web browser
Selecting a link in a web
Navigating on a web
Zooming in or out on a web
Opening a new browser window
Switching between browser windows
Viewing your downloads
Finding text within a web
Downloading applications from the web
Copying text, looking up information, and sharing
Internet
Viewing bookmarks and previously visited pages
Setting browser options
Using your phone as a modem tethering
Changing the phone name
Bluetooth
Using Bluetooth
Turning Bluetooth on or off
Reconnecting a headset or car kit
Connecting a Bluetooth headset or car kit
Unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting or unpairing from a Bluetooth device
Disconnecting a Bluetooth device
Sending information from your phone to another device
Sending and receiving information using Bluetooth
Receiving information from another device
Adding the Bluetooth received folder to the Home screen
Viewfinder screen
Camera
Camera basics
Review screen
Using the optical joystick as the shutter release
Zooming
Camera flash doesn’t turn on?
Taking a photo
Capturing a video
Changing advanced settings
Camera settings
Changing basic settings
Camera
Selecting an album
Photos
About the Photos application
Browsing in filmstrip or grid view
Viewing photos and videos
Watching video
Viewing a photo in landscape orientation
Zooming in or out on a photo
Viewing photos on Flickr
Viewing photos in your social networks
Viewing photos on Facebook
Cropping a photo
Working with photos
Rotating and saving a photo
Sending a photo or video by MMS
Sending photos or videos using Bluetooth
Sharing
Sending photos or videos by email
Sharing videos on YouTube
Sharing photos on Facebook
Sharing photos on Flickr
Sharing photos on Picasa
Playing music
Music
About the Music application
Browsing music in the Library
Adding more songs to a playlist
Creating a playlist
Playing the songs in a playlist
Managing playlists
Deleting playlists
Rearranging songs in a playlist
Deleting songs from a playlist
Checking if the song was added as a ringtone
Setting a song as ringtone
Sending music using Bluetooth
About the Music widget
Viewing locations
Using Google Maps
Maps and location
Clearing the map
Looking at a location in Street View
Viewing map layers
Tap . The search results are displayed on the map
Searching for a location
Getting directions
Responding to an invitation
Joining Latitude
Opening Latitude
Inviting friends to share their locations
Viewing your friends’ locations
Connecting with and managing friends
Changing privacy settings
Revisiting a footprint
Using HTC Footprints
Creating a footprint
Exporting your footprints
Editing or deleting a footprint
Adding the Footprints widget
Importing footprints
Searching for videos
More apps
Watching videos on YouTube
Watching videos
Capturing a video and sharing it on YouTube
Sharing a video link
More apps
Viewing documents, presentations, and spreadsheets
Deleting stock quotes and indices
Keeping track of your stocks
Adding a stock quote or stock market index
Changing the stock list order
Adding the Stocks widget
Setting stock information update frequency
Manually updating stock information
Listening to an FM station
Listening to the radio
Minimizing or turning off FM Radio
Adding station names
Sharing a voice clip
Setting a voice clip as a ringtone
Recording your voice
Recording your voice
Opening Voice Search
Using Voice Search
Opening Navigator
Navigator
Finding and installing an application
Finding and installing apps from Android Market
Requesting a refund for an application
Creating a Google Checkout account
Getting help
Opening an installed application
Uninstalling an application
Protecting your phone with a screen lock
Security
Settings on your phone
Settings
Settings
Preventing automatic screen rotation
Changing display settings
Adjusting the screen brightness manually
Adjusting the time before the screen turns off
Keeping the screen on while charging the phone
Switching animation effects on or off
Enabling or disabling haptic feedback
Changing sound settings
Setting a sound profile
Enabling or disabling audible selection
Changing the phone language
Checking the power usage of applications
Optimizing your phone’s battery life
Managing memory
Checking information about your phone
Backing up your contacts
Backup, update and reset
Setting up Backup Assistant
Changing the backup schedule
Updating your phone’s system software
Checking for phone system software updates manually
Performing a factory reset using phone buttons
Performing a hard/factory reset
Performing a factory reset via settings
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